Socialist Senateย Democrats are waiting to get the welfare/socialist climate bill passed but in the meantime, they are considering blowing up the filibuster to force through their partisan overhaul of the country’s election laws. They favor Democrats to the point of destroying any chance of Republicans winning key seats.
This would be their major domestic win since they’re totalitarians. It’s their Christmas present to Republicans and the nail in the coffin of the two-party system.
โI think thereโs a universal view in our caucus that we need to get something done,โ saidย Senateย Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat. โThereโs a strong belief in theย Senateย that we can restore theย Senateย and at the same time deal with voting rights, and thatโs what weโre aiming to do.โ
They want to build on their recent success in creating a one-time fast track process for raising the debt ceiling. Who would have predicted that says I sarcastically.
McConnell caved to let it happen.
Schumer and other Democratic leaders say it has created an opportunity. They say that measure, which passed only because of the support of 10 Republican senators, has opened the door to suspend the filibuster one time to pass voting rights legislation.
โWe in this chamber made a change in theย Senateโs rules in order to push forward something that all of us think is important,โ said Sen. Raphael Warnock, Georgia Democrat. โWe set the stage to raise the nationโs debt ceiling, and yet as we cast that vote โฆ this same chamber is allowing the ceiling of our democracy to crash in around us.โ
Thanks, Mitch.
Mr. Warnock and a cadre of Democratic senators are working to craft a plan to change theย Senateโs long-standing filibuster rules, which require at least 60 votes to end debate on the legislation, to pass the election legislation.
The key to unlocking the rules change is Sen.ย Joe Manchin III, a West Virginia Democrat.
โWe could not imagine โ we could not imagine changing the rules. That is, until last week. Because last week we did exactly that,โ said Mr. Warnock. โBe very clear: Last week we changed the rules of theย Senate.โ
Yeah, right.
THE OPTIONS UNDER CONSIDERATION
- Some lawmakers, like Warnock of Georgia, are pushing for a simple one-time filibuster carve-out to pass voting rights.
- Others want a more radical change to theย Senateย institution.ย Along those lines, there is talk of changing the filibuster to require 41 โnoโ votes on ending debate rather than the 60 โyesโ vote threshold.
- Another possibility is to require senators to mount a โtalking filibuster,โ which would require lawmakers to speak continuously on the floor in objection to a bill.
- โI think right now what weโre talking about is restoring the talking filibuster and restoring theย Senateย to the good old days when one person couldnโt have veto power,โ said Sen. Jon Tester, a Montana Democrat who is part of the rule change talks.
- Manchin has signaled a willingness to discuss the topic.
โWeโre talking about โฆ everything, [including] the rules. How do we make theย Senateย work better?โ said Mr. Manchin. โHow can theย Senateย function the way it was designed to function?โ
WILL MANCHIN GO ALONG?
Complicating the talks is that Mr. Manchin is also actively pursuing discussions with Republican lawmakers on whether a bipartisan fix is possible.
โAll of my discussions have been with bipartisan, Republicans and Democrats,โ said Mr. Manchin. โThe rules change should be done to be where we all have input in this rules change because weโre going to have to live with it.โ
Republican lawmakers are staunchly opposed to blowing up the filibuster rules.
Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah said he is involved in Republican talks with Mr. Manchin, pressing him to oppose another filibuster carve-out of any kind.
โThere is no Republican interest in the idea that we do a talking filibuster. โฆ Thatโs eliminating the filibuster,โ he said.
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